Electrothermal mass accelerators, based on capillary discharges, that form a plasma
propelling force from the ablation of a low-z liner material are candidates for fuelling …

The concept of tapered capillary is introduced as a method of injecting focused plasma jet
into the breach of bulk-loaded electrothermal-chemical (ETC) launcher. Tapered capillaries …

Electrothermal (ET) plasma discharges are capillary discharges that ablate liner materials
and form partially ionized plasma. ET plasma discharges are generated by driving current …

Electrothermal (ET) plasma launchers have a wide array of applications as mass
acceleration devices. An ET plasma launcher utilizes an ET plasma discharge to accelerate …

Ablation controlled electrothermal (ET) plasma discharge devices consist of a small
diameter capillary through which a large amount of energy is discharged. The high energy in …

Future magnetic fusion reactors such as tokamaks will need innovative, fast, deep-fueling
systems to inject frozen deuterium-tritium pellets at high speeds and high repetition rates …

Deep fueling for large-scale tokamak fusion reactors requires the use of high-velocity fuel
pellet injectors. The fuel pellets consist of deuterium or deuterium-tritium ice. Electrothermal …

Operators of the Godiva IV Fast Burst Reactor discovered that, through observation and
measurement, the device has lost mass, likely through an ablative process. While the loss …

A two-dimensional, time-dependent model and code have been developed to model
electrothermal (ET) plasma discharges. ET plasma discharges are capillary discharges that …

Tapered capillaries operating in the confined controlled arc regime have the advantage of
producing focused hyper plasma jets useful for ignition of electrothermal-chemical ETC …